Optimistic‚ Pessimistic‚ and Emotional Thinking Styles Andrea Tracy University of Phoenix Abstract In critical thinking‚ one of the most important aspects to recognize is the influence of human factors in how thought processing occurs. Factors like enculturation‚ emotion‚ stress‚ ego‚ and bias all play a pivotal role in how human beings think. Critical thinking requires that a person identify possible factors involved in his or her information gathering and decision making processes to
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What do my results tell me about my individual thinking style or my thought process range? My results were that I was focused. It tells me that I understand what I need to do and the steps that need to be taken to get there. It shows my determination and ability to grasp information. It displayed that I would be more successful at practical jobs that involves problem solving. My results also states that I’m good with research which means I rapidly learn new tasks and commit to different circumstances
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Critical thinking provides framework for successfully evaluating information to make effective decisions; critical thinking entails identifying the best investigation methods to use in finding optimal solutions (Feldman‚ 2009‚ pg. 9). In addition‚ critical thinking takes form in various thinking styles which range from deductive to creative. This paper examines three critical-thinking styles- emotional‚ logical and scientific. Comparing and contrasting these three styles is the purpose for writing
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|Portfolio 3 | | | |Reflection on Different Thinking Styles | | | |1/24/2010 | |
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15 styles of Distorted Thinking * Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. * Polarized Thinking: Things are black or white‚ good or bad. You have to be perfect or you’re a failure. There is no middle ground. * Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once you expect it to happen over and over again. * Mind Reading: Without
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2) Choose and analyze 3 thinking styles There are several types of thinking styles‚ which affect our critical thinking process. These thinking styles are different and can affect our lives either in positive or negative ways. Three of those thinking styles are emotional‚ logical‚ and persuasive. Emotional thinking is applied when an individual thinks with their emotions and makes decisions based on what they feel. This type of thinking lets personal opinions‚ values‚ morals‚ and beliefs play
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The Lens of Style and Personality About 200 people hike the Appalachian Trail every year; blind men‚ old men‚ fat men‚ young men‚ American men‚ foreign men‚ and women. However‚ each experience brings a new flavor‚ not because the hikers had different experiences‚ but because each tells the experience through a different lens: the lens of style and personality. In his hilarious book‚ A Walk In the Woods‚ Bill Bryson narrates his adventures as he challenged himself to hike the Appalachian Trail with
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or tone that he or she wishes to convey is in fact conveyed to the reader. Harper Lee obviously realizes this‚ for in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ [New York: Warner‚ 1982] 278) she wisely selects a distinctive style to relate the moving story of a young child discovering harsh truths regarding human nature <br> <br>The predominant stylistic element Miss Lee uses is her diction and choice of sentence length. At the beginning of the selection‚ the sentences are
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different styles of narrators in Novel. According to him‚ they vary from the first-person report-narrator to the multiple letter writers of epistolary novels‚ to outside-observer narrators of reflexive novels like Don Quixote and Tom Jones‚ to the once intimate and impersonal narrator of Madame Bovary‚ to the “stream-of-consciousness” narrators‚ on to the intensely objective/subjective obsessional narrators of Robbe-Grillet. What interests Stam is the fact that these different styles of narration
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The Great Style of Gatsby Chapter 7 "Her voice is full of money‚" he said suddenly. (pg. 127) Nick constantly observed Daisy’s character --which was clearly a challenge-- since he could never put her into words. Once Gatsby described her as full of money‚ this statement agreed with the previous claims made by Nick. She was youthful‚ rich in nature‚ and loved by all for her bright personality. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses slight apostrophe and hyperbole to describe her voice being full of money‚ when
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